Changing Patterns of Participation in Political Parties: The De-Traditionalisation of Social Democraty in Britain and Germany in a Micro-Historical Perspecive

政党参与模式的转变：微观历史视角下英德社会民主主义的去传统化

• 批准号: 388154467
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Lutz Raphael
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/388154467?language=en
• 关键词: Changing; Patterns; Participation; Political; Parties

This sub-project will analyse the interaction between the change of political participation and growing socio-economic inequality in West European democracies from the mid-1970s to the beginning of the 21st century. This will be done by comparating the relations of the two Social Democratic parties in the FRG and Great Britain and their traditional working class voters. The decline and changing forms of political participation happened in the context of social and economic transformations which, for parts of the left-wing electoral base, was accompanied by mass unemployment and processes of de-qualification, but for others by upward social mobility. The relation of left-wing parties and their classical electoral base changed successively. Disenchantment with politics, the decline of party affiliation together with an increase in voting volatility as well as the rise of alternative ways of participation are generally regarded as clear indicators of these changes in participation. Thus, the parties were forced to adjust their programmes and their political work, which lead to the 'Third Way' (in Germany: 'Neue Mitte') concepts at the end of the 1990s. The sub-project will analyse how, in concrete terms, Social Democratic parties adjusted their political work to these changes. How, at the local level, did the parties react to the loss of members or traditional voters, which conflicts about representation and participation developed among their own followers? The project will focus on changing opportunities and different forms of political mobilisation and participation under conditions of growing social inequality, however also of increasing cultural divergence. This sub-project starts from the hypothesis that the complex connections between participation and social inequality can be best investigated by analysing the change of group configurations happening in the respective local constituencies. The change of social structures, which definitely happened in different ways at the local level, resulted in shifts of the party and electoral base, and lead to changes in the presence and weight of social groups inside the party which can be seen in different levels of participation in local party work, in shifting programmatic priorities of the parties' local agenda (e.g. topics of race and gender) and in changing profils of local party leaders representing different groups and interests. In a more general perspective, the study analyses the re-adjustment of relational equality in times of change. The analysis will deal with developments in Great Britain and West Germany, comparing two local case or micro historical studies (Frankfurt, Kassel/London).

这一分项目将分析从1970年代中期到21世纪初西欧民主国家政治参与的变化与日益严重的社会经济不平等之间的相互作用。这将通过比较联邦德国和英国的两个社会民主党和他们的传统工人阶级选民的关系来实现。政治参与的减少和形式的改变是在社会和经济转型的背景下发生的，对部分左翼选民来说，伴随着大规模失业和取消资格的过程，但对另一些人来说，则伴随着向上的社会流动。左翼政党及其经典选民基础的关系先后发生了变化。人们普遍认为，对政治的幻想破灭、政党派别的减少以及投票波动性的增加以及其他参与方式的增加，都被认为是这些参与变化的明确指标。因此，各政党被迫调整他们的计划和政治工作，这导致了1990年代末的“第三条道路”(在德国：“Neue Mitte”)概念。该分项目将具体分析社会民主党如何根据这些变化调整其政治工作。在地方一级，各政党对失去成员或传统选民的情况作何反应，这在他们自己的追随者之间产生了关于代表和参与的冲突？该项目将侧重于在社会不平等日益加剧的情况下改变机会以及不同形式的政治动员和参与，然而，文化差异也越来越大。这一分项目始于这样一种假设，即通过分析在各自地方选区发生的群体结构变化，可以最好地研究参与和社会不平等之间的复杂联系。社会结构的变化--肯定是在地方一级以不同的方式发生的--导致了政党和选举基础的变化，并导致党内社会团体的存在和权重的变化，这体现在对地方政党工作的不同参与程度上，改变了政党地方议程的方案优先事项(例如种族和性别议题)，以及改变了代表不同群体和利益的地方政党领导人的形象。在更广泛的视角下，本研究分析了关系平等在变化时代的重新调整。分析将涉及英国和西德的发展，比较两个当地的案例或微观历史研究(法兰克福、卡塞尔/伦敦)。